What Help do Parents Have in Protecting Their Kids?

Two things do the most good: getting the family into the habit of good communication about online computing, and teaching us the laws that companies must abide by. We've talked a lot about what parents should do in terms of strengthening the communication with their kids. Now we discuss what legal protections we have and how to use them effectively.

At the end of this chapter are three important tools for your use, written by Larry Magid, one of the first people to write about children online. Those tools are the kids' privacy checklist, the parent's privacy checklist, and the family computing contract.